Spaceship323
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Are either of these down to be converted? The four 153's originally were 07,28,31 and 52 AFAIK
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TfW ‘Active Travel’ Class 153 progress updates
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There are six conversions planned!
Spaceship323
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Thanks, I only had the first 4 listed
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I presume 528 was ex 328?
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Yes, that's correct.
Back in March last year the above was written here. All three of the 'ex' units given are wrong. Was there ever anything substantial behind these allocations?
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153552 + 153382
2M06 0856 Swansea to Shrewsbury today (Tuesday 25th)
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StripeyNick
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Back when I posted that, they were the units that were listed on Trainlogger but I'm guessing there was still a bit of uncertainty as to what units were actually at Landore for conversion.
Looking at it closely, those former numbers are actually the other half from when they were 155s!
BenBracken
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First one in service today!
Anonymous10
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Which unit and diagram?
MP393
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153552 & 153382
ECS Canton Swansea
05:16 Swansea Llandovery
06:44 Llandovery Swansea
08:56 Swansea Shrewsbury
13:54 Shrewsbury Swansea
18:33 Swansea Llanelli
ECS Llanelli Canton
BillStampy
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It would make sense at it follows a Canton - Canton diagram on the services it ran today.
Another unit may be headed to Canton tomorrow on 3Z30 Landore - Canton.
I was thinking the same with it being a Canton start and end diagram. The others end up in Carmarthen and Crewe I think.
Will keep an eye out and hopefully one day I will catch it.
BenBracken
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Have they figured out what to do about Sugar Loaf yet? As only one door opens to passengers, how can they let a cyclist off (like me) making sure it’s the right door at the platform?! I only ask as I had to push my bike through to the front unit last time I tried.
Looks like 2 of the HOWL diagrams are 150s today with 153333/153323 on the other diagram. No sign of the Active Travel 153s today.
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Had a quick ride from Swansea to Gowerton this evening on the Active Travel 153. The tables are awful! The space between the seat and table itself is terrible. The conductor commented as she came though the train that the tables were really crammed in, some people on the HOWL earlier in the day had difficulty. I ended up moving to the pull down seats in the bike area to try them (which was empty). I understand the other 153 attached is just a standard 153 so seating should be better. I hope so as it would be a very uncomfortable journey on the HOWL in those seats otherwise.
Overall inside it looks like a standard 153 with around 1/3 of the seats removed for the cycle spaces. A bit underwhelming really. The only positive I will say is the livery is very nice.
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Had a quick ride from Swansea to Gowerton this evening on the Active Travel 153. The tables are awful! The space between the seat and table itself is terrible. The conductor commented as she came though the train that the tables were really crammed in, some people on the HOWL earlier in the day had difficulty. I ended up moving to the pull down seats in the bike area to try them (which was empty). I understand the other 153 attached is just a standard 153 so seating should be better. I hope so as it would be a very uncomfortable journey on the HOWL in those seats otherwise.
Overall inside it looks like a standard 153 with around 1/3 of the seats removed for the cycle spaces. A bit underwhelming really. The only positive I will say is the livery is very nice.
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50002Superb
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Any news on 153507 yet?
Not seen any mention of that one.
Not seen any mention of that one.
StripeyNick
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When I asked about it a couple of weeks ago it was just awaiting it's vinyls so probably imminent
BenBracken
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Are there any patterns of which services the Active travel units are running?
They currently have a diagram from and to Canton
ECS Canton to Swansea
05:16 Swansea to Llandovery
06:44 Llandovery to Swansea
08:56 Swansea to Shrewsbury
13:54 Shrewsbury to Swansea
18:33 Swansea to Llanellli
ECS Llanelli to Canton
They also have another diagram but that's different every day as it starts and finishes in different places. Started in Canton on Monday, Carmarthen on Tuesday and Crewe tomorrow, as more sets are formed all those diagrams are likely to go to Active Travel sets.
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Kite159
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Isn't the 18;33 to Llanelli then ECS to Cardiff?
Certainly is. Thanks for noticing, original post amended accordingly.
Jacob Porrett
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Saw this on X
Are these being converted to AT 153s?
They already are. Looks like the video is 3 years old by the date.
StripeyNick
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They have already been converted
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BenBracken
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Had my first go on one tonight, AT03, heading to Fishguard! Except due to a 197 train fault ahead of us we only got as far as Llanelli before being kicked off and it having to return to Swansea due to lack of train manager. Is it common for them to do other services outside HoWL?
BillStampy
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Quite a few sets have wondered off elsewhere, some days it was doing Newport to Ebbw Vale, earlier this week they were running Maesteg to Cardiff!
However, the sets do have a diagram which starts in Swansea and ends in Carmarthen, working Swansea - Cardiff in the morning, Cardiff to Swansea in the afternoon then Swansea - Fishguard and finally Swansea - Carmarthen, this is to get the set to work the early morning HoWL service from Carmarthen.
So in short, yes.
There seems to have been a rather large change of plan regarding the fleet over the past few weeks with the 13 planned 153 diagrams from May being chopped to just 5 Active travel diagrams.
The vast majority are on heart of Wales however one does the day on Crewe-Shrewsbury locals after doing the early Llandrindod turn back and another is planned to do a Swanline service and a Fishguard. There's only 3 sets formed up at the moment so unless some more appear very quickly it seems inevitable some will have to be subbed by 150s to start with.